The last time I wrote something here, I talked about tomorrow land becoming today land and then yesterday land. The point was that time somehow seems to have speeded up. I\u2019ve often heard it said (and maybe I agree) that the older you get, the faster time seems to go. I\u2019ve also heard that time flies when you\u2019re having fun. But I\u2019m pretty sure that as you get older, time flies whether you\u2019re having fun or not.<\/p>\n
Seems like when we were kids, the summers were long \u2014 I never remember feeling rushed at all. Now, just when the weather starts to get warm, we\u2019re getting ready for fall.<\/p>\n
So, anyhow, I figured I\u2019d do some extensive research and see if there really is anything to this \u201ctime speeding up\u201d school of thought. Interestingly, I found a theory \u2014 supposedly a scientifically proven fact \u2014 that time really is speeding up. The explanation of how time is speeding up is explained by something called the \u201cSchuman Resonance.\u201d This is a measurement of the resonance, or frequency, of the earth. I don\u2019t pretend to understand it very well, but all matter has a frequency (kind of an electro magnetic \u201cpulse.\u201d) The earth\u2019s \u201cpulse\u201d is measured by Schuman Resonance. When that resonance was first measured in the 1950s, the earth\u2019s frequency was 7.8 hertz. It has recently been recorded at 12 hertz. That means that a 24 hour day now feels like it\u2019s just 16 hours.
\nIf you were, or are, a fan of Einstein you\u2019ll remember that he calculated that the faster we go, the slower time goes and conversely the slower we go, the faster time goes. When an object’s speed increases toward the speed of light, time moves more slowly. If we were in a spacecraft moving at the speed of light for just a few days and then returned to earth, we\u2019d find that while we were gone, decades had passed.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s another theory of why time speeds up, or at least we think it does as we get older. Maybe time perception<\/em> is relative to the length of our lives and the number of recurring milestones. When you are doing things for the first time and when you are younger, that experience becomes a big milestone and forms a significant percentage of your life (to date.) As you get older, your life (of course) becomes longer and the percentage of your life taken up by an experience becomes smaller. When you\u2019ve done things before, or do them routinely, they seem (to you) to take less time. Remember when you were a kid, Christmas took forever to arrive. Now it shows up right after Halloween.<\/p>\n My extensive research found a study that asked people of various ages to describe time. I didn\u2019t read the entire study, but the conclusion was that younger people tended to use phrases like, \u201ctime is like a motionless ocean\u201d or \u201ctime is quiet\u201d to describe time. Older people were more likely to use phrases like, \u201ctime is like a speeding train.\u201d<\/p>\n So what\u2019s going on? Maybe time is actually speeding up, or maybe it\u2019s just our perception\u2026 but one thing is certain \u2014 once time is gone, we can\u2019t bring it back. That should give us all reason to use it wisely. I often think of something Dr. Seuss said, \u201cHow did it get so late so soon?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last time I wrote something here, I talked about tomorrow land becoming today land and then yesterday land. The point was that time somehow seems to have speeded up. I\u2019ve often heard it said (and maybe I agree) that … Continue reading
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